Martin home for the first time in four years

12:00AM BST 08 Aug 2003

Tony Martin, the farmer jailed after shooting dead one burglar and injuring another, has returned home for the first time since his release.

Martin, 58, arrived at Bleak House in Norfolk, in the early hours of this morning. He was freed from prison last week after serving two-thirds of a five-year sentence for the manslaughter of Fred Barras, 16.

In August 1999 he shot dead Barras and wounded the teenager's accomplice Brendan Fearon, 33, after confronting them at his isolated home late at night. The burglars had travelled from their homes in Newark, Nottinghamshire to raid Martin's farm.